2024 Conference Program

Schedule At-A-Glance

Main events will take place at the OSU Wes Watkins Center (see map)

Friday, April 19	Description	Location
5:30 PM	Registration Table Open + Light Refreshments	1st floor Registration Area
6:00 PM	Opening Remarks	Auditorium
6:15 PM	Plenary Speaker - Jesse Ball	Auditorium
7:45 PM	Closing and Grad Student Social	The Garage

Saturday, April 20	Description	Location
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Registration Table Open	1st floor Registration Area
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast	1st floor Registration Area
8:30 AM - 9:55 AM	Session 1 : Concurrent Panels and Presentations	Auditorium/101/108/109/209
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM	Morning Break - Coffee	1st floor Registration Area
10:30 AM - 11:55 PM	Session 2: Concurrent Panels and Presentations	Auditorium/101/108/109/209
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch Break	1st floor Registration Area
1:00 PM - 2:25 PM	Session 3: Concurrent Panels and Presentations	Auditorium/101/108/109/209
2:30 PM - 2:55 PM	Afternoon Break - Coffee	1st floor Registration Area
3:00 PM - 4:25 PM	Session 4: Concurrent Panels and Presentations	Auditorium/101/108/109/209
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Awards/Recognition Ceremony & Closing Remarks	Auditorium

Plenary

Jesse Ball

Evening of

Friday, April 19

Refreshments start at 5:30PM

Opening remarks start at 6:00PM

Visiting writer Profile:

jesseball.com*

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Sponsored by the FAE rawdon norris Endowment

and the OSU English Department

Saturday Panels

Location: Auditorium

Panel 1	Title: Who's Writing? Artificial Intelligence in Writing Instruction	View Bio and Abstract
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Moderator: Richard Sears
	Panelists: Eric D. Howerton, Fran Junnier
Panel 2	Title: The Senses of Variation in Oklahoma English	View Bio and Abstract
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Moderator: Sara Loss
	Panelists: Sydney Gaddis, Akadienne Hamby, Bethany Merino, Justice Rebmann, Lewsi Roek, Amanda Weaver, Brayton Whiteley, Chandler Dean, Kori Travis
Panel 3	Title: Mosaics of Sensation: A Reading by Frontier Mosaic	View Bio and Abstract
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Moderator: Lauren Osborn
	Panelists: Megan Blodgett, Laynee Wessel, Will Harwell, Lane Howard, Britney Driskel
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch Break - Registration Area
Panel 4	Title: Contours of Discontent: Political, Social, and Gender Anxieties in Contemporary Hindi Cinema	View Bio and Abstract
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Moderator: Amit Rahul Baishya
	Panelists: Komal Nazir, Salman Rafique, Sara Ali
Panel 5	Title: Affective Regimes: Sensing Authoritarianism in Transnational Literature	View Bio and Abstract
2:15PM - 3:15 PM	Moderator: Siddharth Arora
	Panelists: Taylor Gregory, Kyu Jeoung Lee, Salman Rafique
Panel 6	Title: Rising from the Dust: Reframing Oklahoma’s Intergenerational Trauma Legacy Towards Resilience	View Bio and Abstract
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	Moderator: Jessica Turcat
	Panelists: Joanna George, Salman Rafique

Session 1 - Presentations

Time: 8:30AM - 8:55AM

Location	Title: The Kiss: Author and Audience Relationship in Memoir	View Bio and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Kim Shaw
	Strand: Creative Writing, Literature
Location		View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Cancellation

Location	Title: Female Gardeners and Poetic Creation in Toru Dutt's "The Lotus"	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: JT Rucker
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Literature
Location	Title: Wild whiches in Oklahoma! The Use of the Relative Pronoun which in Oklahoma English	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Chandler Dean
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics

Time: 9:00AM - 9:25AM

Location	Title: “Like, who was I if I wasn’t an athlete?”: Post-Sport Selves in Athlete Memoirs	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Kaila Lancaster
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Strand: Literature
Location	Title: Interference vs. Attention: Simone Weil’s Senses of Reading	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Sari Carter
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Literature

Location	Title: Touching Rejection: A Sensory Approach to Humanizing Job Rejection Emails Through Rhetorical Genre Analysis	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Olufemi Akojede
209 - Seminar Room	Strands: Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: Making Sense of Tornadoes: Introducing Students to Oral History through an Honors Tornado-Culture Course	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenters: Patrick Daglaris, Stephanie Miller, Calen Cox, Matthew Ellis
101 - Legacy Room	Strands: Interdisciplinary Studies, Literature, History

Time: 9:30AM - 9:55AM

Location	Title: Reconstructing Home in Bui’s "The Best We Could Do"	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Farah Taha
	Strand: Literature, History
Location	Title: Flesh, Form, and Tyranny in Alice Notley's "The Descent of Alette"	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Katie McMorris
	Strand: Literature
Location	Title: "I Sense Something...”: Fans, Nostalgia, and Hayden Christensen’s Return to Star Wars	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Taylor Adams
	Strand: Screen Studies
Location	Title: Sense and Sensibility in L2 English Writing Evaluation: Exploring Bias and Perception in Grammar Assessment	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Ali Castillo
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics

Morning Break: 10:00AM - 10:25AM

Session 2 - Presentations

Time: 10:30AM - 10:55AM

Location	Title: "Never trust the father you can see": An Interrogation of the Religions of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Sam Reimer
	Strands: Interdisciplinary Studies, Literature
Location
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Cancellation

Location	Title: “The old things were in their places”: The Arrangement of Things in Henry James’s The Spoils of Poynton	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Haley Reed
	Strand: Literature
Location	Title: Finding Balance: An Exploration of Traditional Cherokee Teachings	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Russell Webb
	Strands: Literature

Time: 11:00AM - 11:25AM

Location	Title: Sense and Substantiation: Kierkegaard's "choice" as Wallace’s means of escaping postmodern irony	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Ethan Morris
	Strand: Literature
Location	Title: Senses of Place: Locality, Art, and Experience in the American West	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Scott Hendry
	Strands: Literature, Screen Studies
Location	Title: It's Complicated: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in University Collections	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Christina Elliott
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Interdisciplinary Studies, History, Fine Arts
Location	Title: Adaptation and Coloniality in Henry Moore’s Reclining Figures	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Jessie Brown
	Strands: Interdisciplinary Studies, Fine Arts

Time: 11:30AM - 11:55AM

Location
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Cancellation

Location	Title: Embodied Frontier: A Study of Sensory Knowledge in the Homesteader Recollections of Oklahoma	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Edith Ritt-Coulter
	Strands: Interdisciplinary Studies, History
Location
209 - Seminar Room	Cancellation

Location	Title: Time Before Morning	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Noelle Buffo
	Strands: Literature, History

Lunch Break: 12:00PM - 1:00PM

Session 3 - Presentations

Time: 1:00PM - 1:25PM

Location	Title: The Bluest Eye and the Looking Glass Self	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Lucy Emerho & Mackenzie Tomlinson
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Literature
Location	Title: I Don't Want to Be Here: An Introvert's Guide Through Academia	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Jessie Roark & Roseanna Recchia
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Interdisciplinary Studies
Location	Title: Sensing Divine Presence: Rhetorics of Survivance in the Writings of Zitkala-Ša	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Shelley Aschliman
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: Embodied Consciousness: A New Framework for Recognizing Conscious Creatures	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Charley Johnson
	Strand: Interdisciplinary Studies

Time: 1:30PM - 1:55PM

Location	Title: (Re)conceptualising Kwame Nkrumah’s Philosophy within a Common-Sense Neoliberal African Higher Education Era	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Emmanuel Intsiful
	Strands: Interdisciplinary Studies, History
Location	Title: Tagging Supra-Segmental Features In Speech: A Case Study Of International Teaching Assistants	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: MenyeneAbasi Obong
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics
Location	Title: The 5 Senses of War and Displacement	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Kat Abdallah
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Creative Writing
Location	Title: Genre-Based Instruction in a Tech-Mediated Research Writing Course	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Lily Harrel, Yaser Shamsi & Robert Redmon
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics

Time: 2:00PM - 2:25PM

Location	Title: William Snelgrave’s Account (1734): An Early 18th Century Perspective on Africa, Slavery, and Piracy	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Katie Leigh, Jodi Tarbet, Jackson Dillingham (Advisor: Richard Frohock)
	Strands: Literature, History
Location	Title: A Choose-Your-Own-Experience Game: Accessibility in the Writing Center	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Luka Brave
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: Paradise Now: A Palestinian Poet Cries for His Homeland	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Nabeal Twereet
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Creative Writing
Location	Title: Corpus Analysis for Spanish for Specific Purposes Curriculum: Technical Vocabulary and Multiword Units in the Bilingual Wood Floor Industry	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Ryan Nicklas
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics

Afternoon Break: 2:30PM - 2:55PM

Session 4 - Presentations

Time: 3:00PM - 3:25PM

Location	Title: The Angry ADC: The Emotional Labor of Responding to Student Deaths in Composition Programs	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Nataly Dickson
	Strand: Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: The Validity Graphic Literature and its use in the Classroom	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Alexandra Sweis
	Strands: Literature, Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: The Senselessness of Dystopic in Brave New World	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Jason A. Smith
	Strand: Literature
Location	Title: Conflicting preference: A critical conversation analysis of how women with chronic illness talk about disability	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Hann Bingham Brunner
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics

Time: 3:30PM - 3:55PM

Location	Title: Sensing Disruptions: Afrofuturist Livelihoods in Rap Rhetoric from the mind of Kendrick Lamar	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Tristan Graney
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: The Space Between in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (2001)	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Breanna Beaty
	Strands: Screen Studies, History, Fine Arts
Location	Title: The Fog of War: Knowing, Unknowing, and Believing in Russian Twitter discourse on the war in Ukraine	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Fran Junnier & Galina Shleykina
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics
Location	Title: From Physical to Psychological: Unraveling Representations of Gendered Violence in Suspirium	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Tara Jo Lenertz
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Screen Studies

Time: 4:00PM - 4:25PM

Location	Title: Media Representation of Identities: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Black Lives Matter Reportage	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Victor Adedayo
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics
Location	Title: Rhetorical Space and TikTok’s Influence on Christian Communal Worship	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Linnea Vogel
	Strand: Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: Elon Musk’s bluecheck army and the anti-social(ist) consensuses of eX-Twitter	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Bryan "jonesy" Jones
	Strand: Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: No Big Deal: Abuse, Grief, and Looking for a Home	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Rachele Salvini
	Strand: Creative Writing

Closing Ceremony: 4:30PM - 5:30PM

Auditorium

Thank you to our Sponsors

Fae Rawdon Norris Foundation

for the Humanities

Mary Lou Sare

OSU Alumna